Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1953-12-25 James H. Purdy, Jr. MEMPHIS WORLD "Glory Be To God In The Highest" It must have been a great day of triumph as well as much speculation when it was announced that our Lord was born. For many decades the prophets had been foretelling His coming. There were young Jewish women in every generation, who in reason might have anticipated the motherhood of the promised child. From our appraisal of standards and the impulse to worship the great, at that day and time, it was but natural for those living in that era to imagine that the Christ child would come from high parentage. He would be the center of mighty curiosity in some great castle where the rich and the men of stale would have the first look. Quite to the contrary, it happened that poor men, unlearned men, toiling men were the first to behold the star. Coming into the realization of a disturbed condition, hinging around that bright light in the heavens, great speculation "seized their troubled minds." Upon the resolve to follow the star and find out its meaning, it did not in its commanding compass point to a castle, a mansion. It was to guide men to oh humble city with its thatched cabins and castles sleeping by the wayside. But, the babe was not to be found in one of the commodious homes of warmth and comfort. It was not even to be found in one of the simple cabins, but in the back, where many of us are bidden, he was found reposing in a manger bed. Here was the end of the cattle range, here the oxen lowed and dumb creeping things were to be the first host of the mighty God, the everlasting father and hg Prince of Peace. This very crisis through which the troubled nations of the world are now passing should be spiced with renewed hope in a reliving of this night of patient pageantry and the simplicity of Democracy. The history of the world will disclose that minorities have always had their restrictions; they have always been the first forgotten and the last remembered. Theirs is a condition they neither brought on nor have control over. They are in the windy waiting lines of fate and there upon the same premise, our Lord decreed, when a man born blind was brought to Him for the answer —"Who hath sinned this man or his parents?" As was the case then, the world is disturbed about the minorities; they have always been a concern of civilization. Despite the fact that they neither have political power nor the wealth to challenge conditions, they nevertheless afford a bargain of fear for the ruling classes. The life of Jesus was as simple as His birth. The people to whom he apealed were as simply as the shepherds who first saw the star and His mission on earth was a glorification in the retrieving of "that which was lost." We come to the celebration of the great day that rises in its prominence above all days. Men high and low join in the seraphs, the legends and otherwise celebrations giving consent to this era in which the poor, the lame and the forgotten were remembered by God Himself when He sent through the distressed ages of another era, His only begotten son to save the world. "Glory be to God in the highest; peace, peace on earth, Goodwill to men." MY WEEKLY SERMON REV. BUURT. HUNT, PASTOR MISSISSIPPI BLVD. CHRISTIAN CHURCH, MEMPHIS When Jesus was born in Bethlehem there came wise men from the Orient guided by a brilliant, star, to the house where the young child, Jesus was Beholding the baby, Jesus, they fell down and worshipped Him....presenting to Him their treasured gift. Jealous Herod had Sought of them where the king of kings should be born. But warned of Herod's deception, they returned not to Herod but "They departed into their country another way." The text forfeits what is the experience of men and women, boys and girls who come into worshipful contact with the manger-cradled babe of Bethlehem. Jesus the Christ is a power to be reckoned with. Men and women, touched by His compulsive loveliness are changed. Jesus' disciples, touched by this compulsive loveliness, left their nets, businesses. forsook their homes and kindered, and cast their all into his crucible. Their lives were surcharged by the moral loveliness of Jesus as one by one they laid their lives upon the sacrifical altar of loyalty to his strange force...whose body was given to the world on the first Christmas day. Jesus Christ has the unique fa cult of sending men and women, boys and girls, away changed in mind, body, and soul. It is evening by the lake of Galilee. A great crowd has swarmed around the master, Jesus. They are tired...hungry. They come to see the master one way and He sends them away another way...satisfied in mind, soul, and body ... "they departed another way." Again, it is evening capernaum. Standing on a familiar spot at the door of Simon Peter's house is the master, Jesus. To Jesus, through the narrow streets are borne the sick, the lame the blind grope their way to testis. They come one way ... in pain. Jesus sends them home another way...the way of forgiveness...with their healed bodies and seeing eyes. The wise men left the mangercradled babe of Bethlehem and departed another way to avoid a second meeting with Herod. But it is also grandly true that they were different in heart and life after they had laid their mortal eyes upon the immortal Son of God, wrapped in the tender flesh of an infant...tender flesh in swaddling clothes...lying in a manger! May we live to see Christmas, December 23, 1953. If God so wills, may we behold the babe of Bethlehem...don't leave Him out of Christmas. If you, in worshipful attitude, behold the babe, Jesus, then you, too, will deport another way...a way that leads to life eternal. Death won't frighten you when he comes like a falling star, for you have laid hold of the babe of Bethlehem... born on Christmas...for Jesus, who is life eternal, has been born In your life. Let us not expose ourselves to the Herods of sin and destruction, revelry, and drunkenness on Christmas day...let us go another way. Let us expose ourselves in praise and adoration to the babe of Bethlehem. Let us lay at His feet our sacrificial gifts...gifts of love... gifts to those in need. Inasmuch as you minister to others, you minister unto the babe of Bethlehem. "A WORLD IN EVERY HOME" The is a substantial constructive Newspaper published every Tuesday and Friday." The only Semi-Weekly Organ of 1,000,000 Negroes in the Memphis Trade Area. If you want the delivered to your door clip the blank below and fill out with your correct name, address and apartment number and mail to the Name.................................... Address...................... Phone........... City................... State............ Over$8,000 Hernando. They are manned by Isaac Polk arid Henry Wright. Lt. Lee said he hoped to interest some civic, clubs into manning, the jug stands for a day to stimulate offerings. If the spirit of goodwill prevails and the fund objective is reached, Lee added, eight truckloads of Christman baskets will be delivered to the less fortunate on Christmas five. The following Elks will serve on the trucks delivering the Christmas baskets; James Smith; Moses Adams; Rev. P. C. Polk; Marvin C. Young; Eugene Thomas; Mack Douelas; Haywood Gains; Eddie Matthews and James Winston All Christmas baskets will be delivered tomorrow. If the $8,000 goal is passed. Lee said the surplus money will be given towards the maintances of a night school for those who can't read or write, another Elks project which was started last year. Recently the following made contributions towards the Elks Christ mas basket fund. Lt. Lee, originator of the Elks Christmas Fund and the "Blues Bowl Classic" when interviewed by a Memphis World reporter, said, "Our greatest success in the 15 years is told not in the amount of money we have been able to collect, but the multitude of families we have help to rehabilitate themselves and enjoy a Merry Christmas and get a new look on life. "The Memphis Negro Community has been arroused and they now realize they owe a debt of gratitude and responsibility towards the less fortunate, the best evidence of this is the response received from the various organizations. "I am happy to know that the seed we planted 15 years ago took root in fertile soil and has-grown to where its brances spread to all parts of the city and will give aid and shelter to the poor at Christmas time." DELIVERY TOMORROW Hernando. They are manned by Isaac Polk arid Henry Wright. Lt. Lee said he hoped to interest some civic, clubs into manning, the jug stands for a day to stimulate offerings. If the spirit of goodwill prevails and the fund objective is reached, Lee added, eight truckloads of Christman baskets will be delivered to the less fortunate on Christmas five. The following Elks will serve on the trucks delivering the Christmas baskets; James Smith; Moses Adams; Rev. P. C. Polk; Marvin C. Young; Eugene Thomas; Mack Douelas; Haywood Gains; Eddie Matthews and James Winston All Christmas baskets will be delivered tomorrow. If the $8,000 goal is passed. Lee said the surplus money will be given towards the maintances of a night school for those who can't read or write, another Elks project which was started last year. Recently the following made contributions towards the Elks Christ mas basket fund. Lt. Lee, originator of the Elks Christmas Fund and the "Blues Bowl Classic" when interviewed by a Memphis World reporter, said, "Our greatest success in the 15 years is told not in the amount of money we have been able to collect, but the multitude of families we have help to rehabilitate themselves and enjoy a Merry Christmas and get a new look on life. "The Memphis Negro Community has been arroused and they now realize they owe a debt of gratitude and responsibility towards the less fortunate, the best evidence of this is the response received from the various organizations. "I am happy to know that the seed we planted 15 years ago took root in fertile soil and has-grown to where its brances spread to all parts of the city and will give aid and shelter to the poor at Christmas time." PARTIAL LIST OF DONORS Hernando. They are manned by Isaac Polk arid Henry Wright. Lt. Lee said he hoped to interest some civic, clubs into manning, the jug stands for a day to stimulate offerings. If the spirit of goodwill prevails and the fund objective is reached, Lee added, eight truckloads of Christman baskets will be delivered to the less fortunate on Christmas five. The following Elks will serve on the trucks delivering the Christmas baskets; James Smith; Moses Adams; Rev. P. C. Polk; Marvin C. Young; Eugene Thomas; Mack Douelas; Haywood Gains; Eddie Matthews and James Winston All Christmas baskets will be delivered tomorrow. If the $8,000 goal is passed. Lee said the surplus money will be given towards the maintances of a night school for those who can't read or write, another Elks project which was started last year. Recently the following made contributions towards the Elks Christ mas basket fund. Lt. Lee, originator of the Elks Christmas Fund and the "Blues Bowl Classic" when interviewed by a Memphis World reporter, said, "Our greatest success in the 15 years is told not in the amount of money we have been able to collect, but the multitude of families we have help to rehabilitate themselves and enjoy a Merry Christmas and get a new look on life. "The Memphis Negro Community has been arroused and they now realize they owe a debt of gratitude and responsibility towards the less fortunate, the best evidence of this is the response received from the various organizations. "I am happy to know that the seed we planted 15 years ago took root in fertile soil and has-grown to where its brances spread to all parts of the city and will give aid and shelter to the poor at Christmas time." LT. LEE PLEASED WITH RESULTS Hernando. They are manned by Isaac Polk arid Henry Wright. Lt. Lee said he hoped to interest some civic, clubs into manning, the jug stands for a day to stimulate offerings. If the spirit of goodwill prevails and the fund objective is reached, Lee added, eight truckloads of Christman baskets will be delivered to the less fortunate on Christmas five. The following Elks will serve on the trucks delivering the Christmas baskets; James Smith; Moses Adams; Rev. P. C. Polk; Marvin C. Young; Eugene Thomas; Mack Douelas; Haywood Gains; Eddie Matthews and James Winston All Christmas baskets will be delivered tomorrow. If the $8,000 goal is passed. Lee said the surplus money will be given towards the maintances of a night school for those who can't read or write, another Elks project which was started last year. Recently the following made contributions towards the Elks Christ mas basket fund. Lt. Lee, originator of the Elks Christmas Fund and the "Blues Bowl Classic" when interviewed by a Memphis World reporter, said, "Our greatest success in the 15 years is told not in the amount of money we have been able to collect, but the multitude of families we have help to rehabilitate themselves and enjoy a Merry Christmas and get a new look on life. "The Memphis Negro Community has been arroused and they now realize they owe a debt of gratitude and responsibility towards the less fortunate, the best evidence of this is the response received from the various organizations. "I am happy to know that the seed we planted 15 years ago took root in fertile soil and has-grown to where its brances spread to all parts of the city and will give aid and shelter to the poor at Christmas time." FOR SALE! —Sheer— 60 Gauge 1 BOX—3 prs. $3.00 SAVE 57c On 3rd Pair —Also— Nylon Tricot Lingerie Large Sizes GIFT WRAPPING DUNN AVE. SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL— Standing at stiff attention are the members of the Dunn Ave. School Safety patrol as they participate in part of a military drill as part of their daily routine. Facing the World Camera are from left to right—(-st Row): Lee Allen Wingo, Thomas Bell, Sherman McClendon, Louis Trigg, David Massey. 2nd Row: left to right—Ernest Townsend, Clarence Watkins, William Harris, John L. Boyce, Emerson Moore, (3rd Row) Thurman Perry, Henry Lewis, Robert Johnson, and Sponsors Miss Fairy Peyton and Mrs. Mary Rook. Mrs. D. R. Burnley is Principal of the School. Negro Passengers route. Vernon Watts, MSR. superintendent of transportation said the two men were employes of the street railway company. Mr. Watts said at 1:30 p. m. he had talked to the two men. He said they were special officers for the street railway company. He said the officers' story is as follows: They were cruising on Park and noticed the bus. There were a large number of white people standing in the front of the coach. The rear scats were practically vacant. There were no Negroes on the extreme rear seat. "When the bus Stopped at SkyVue Drive-In Theatre at 2855 Park the officer stopped. The bus was discharging passengers. They noticed that five or six Negroes were seated mid-ways of the bus. "One officer got on in the front door and the other at the side door. They asked the Negroes to take seats in the rear. The officers who got on in the front may have asked the officer who got on at the side door if he was having any trouble. The officers didn't say anything rough or but of the way. They may have mentioned the jim crow law, but didn't mention it roughly and repeatedly. "It was the next to the last colored stop. No Negroes live east of Haynes. Some Negroes may have got off while the officers were talking to them. But they would have gotten off anyway. "The next block was the last stop, unless they were going on but to Kennedy Hospital. Mr. Watts declined to give the names of the special officers. Sunset Stone Quarries Co. Inc. Without cost or obligation, please send full details about building Sandstone from the Craborchard district and the name of my nearest dealers. NAME.................................. Address.................................. City.......... P. O. Zone..... State...... BUY YOUR NEW PORTABLE WHERE YOU GET A ONE-YEAR GUARANTEE PRICES INCLUDE CARRYING CASE Only an experienced office machine dealer can back up this dependable service with on-the-spot factory-shop facilities. We have trained mechanics, modern shop facilities and complete stock of new parts to back up the written guarantee we give you of ONE YEAR PARTS AND, LABOR. Republican Old full-fledged party member, the rule says. This represents a big departure from the past stand of some Old Guarders who once said only long standing party members were real Republicans and should vote. First thing that members of a precinct will do at their meeting is elect a temporary chairman, who will appoint two clerks to help hold the election. Contestover precinct elections will be settled by a committee appointed, by the county chairman, and appeal may be made to the whole county committee. For any precinct that does not elect delegates, the county chairman will be allowed to appoint them. The New Guard Association has said it may be impossible to find enough Republicans to hold precinct meetbig in some remote Shelby preclncts. AME Bishop C. as host. The mid-winter session of the Board of Bishops marks the first time in a score of years that the city of Memphis which comprises the West Tennessee conference of the AME Zion Church under the supervision of Bishop S. G. Spottswood will be the meeting place for a general Zion conclave. At the live day session the Board of Bishops will hear reports from the heads of the various departments of the denomination whose general officers are Dr. Claude E. Spurgeon, general secretary-auditor; Richard W. Sherrill, financial secretary; Rev. L. L. Boyd, general manager of the Publication House; Dr. Walter R. Lovell, editor of the Star of Zion; Dr. David H. Bradley, editor of the Quarterly Review; Dr. J. VanCatledge, editor of the Church School Herald; Rev. J. C. Hoggard, secretary of Foreign Missions; Dr. James W. Eichelberger, secretary of the department of Christian Education. Dr. William J. Trent, president of Livingstone College; Dr. Solomon S. Seay secretary-treasurer of Home Missions, Pensions and Relief; Daniel W. Andrews, secretary of Church Extension; Dr. W. S. Dacons, director of Evangelism; Mrs. Erma Watson, executive secretary and Mrs. Julia Baum Shaw, treasurer of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society. In conjunction with the Board of Bishop's meeting, the Ministers and Laymen Association of the AME Zion Church will in their annual business session. Dr. E. Franklin Jackson is its current president also pastor of John. Wesley AME Zion Church in the nation's capital will preside. 110-Voice Choir that time it has been an unwritten custom that the audience stand whenever the chorus is rendered. Handel is reputed to have said that he thought he saw the Great God Himself and all His angels standing before him as he wrote this magnificent chorus. The hour and fiteen-minute presentation was accomplished by the 110 student voices. However, one solo section for contralto was sung by Mrs. Destine Lewis Heathcock the mother of Dr. Edward C. Lewis Jr., head of the department of music at the university. Mrs. Heathcock at one time was on the concert stage, having formerly been under contract with the Baldwin Piano Company and Radio Station WLW in Cincinnati She is a former student of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Student soloists were Miss Mary L. Buses of Corinth. Miss. Miss Margaret Redd of Farmville, Va.; Nobel Benning of Albany, Georgia and Willie Lathon of Memphis Tenn. John H. Sharpe, University Organist and associate professor of Music, was the accompanist. Walter Young of Saint Louis. Missouri, was student accompanist. OLD CABIN STILL Say "Merry Xmas" with a gift as authentically Kentuckian as the ancient hills where Bourbon, first won fame. This year, send and serve genuine CABIN STILL. STITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY, LOUISVILLE, KY. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON - 91 PROOF Thomas L. Young Driving License is Suspended Thomas L. Young, 22, of 399 Orleans, was in traffic court Thursday to answer the charge of reckless driving, it didn't seem to be a serious case. Driving a taxi, he had struck a parked car at Vance and Fourth Saturday, with not much damage and no injuries. Their Judge Canale started reading his record. Three times this vear, on April 27, on Aug. 24 and on Sept. 2. Young had been tried and fined in traffic court on crash cases. "Hand your license over to the officer," said Judge Canale as he fined Young $36. The license will go to the Highway Patrol, where Young will get a chance to hear about a state law which says four moving violations within a year calls for suspension jot license. START THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT! FOR THE Sell Memphis' Leading Newspaper! Send Application To: THE MEMPHIS WORLD Circulation Department 164 Beale Avenue Memphis, Tennessee. I want to sell the Memphis World, Please start me as a salesman: NAME.................................. ADDRESS................................. CITY.............. STATE................. Banner Laundry-Cleaner SAYS... Yes, if we return shirt with a button missing we'll launder FREE that shire plus one more! Illustrator Sought By Civil Service The Fifth U. S. Civil Service Region has announced an examination for illustrator at $2750 to $5050 a year. Persons who apply for this position will be rated on their training and experience. In addition, they will be required to submit a sample of their illustrating skill. Applications forms or information as to where such forms are available may be secured at any Post Office or the Fifth U. S. Civil Service Regional Office, 5 Forsyth Street, N. W., Atlanta, Ga. The conference met Wednesday morning with Bishop's. L. Greene, A. M.D. D. L. L. D., presiding. The roll call showed great emphasis in the work in the state and area. The presiding eiders all made excellent reports of their various Districts, They are Drs. J. H. Edge, Charles Preston Hobbs, J. P. Lampkins, W. O. P. Sherman and J. A. Martin, presiding elder. Wednesday night was the welcome night. Dr. Thronton and his fine members and the citizens of Savannah poured out their welcome in elaborate terms which was to be measured by the hospitality and Otherwise courtesies shown the attendants. Thursday was given over to the introduction of visitors and the completion of reports of pastors and various committees. Dr. Jesse Beard, head of the Pension Department delivered the address. Other General Officers greeted the sesA. Fountian and K. R. Wright made great speeches to the gathering. Friday night made history of the church and race us well. The Educational program was featured by many great men of the church and state. President John H. Lewis and several members of the faculty of Morris Brown College gave excellent accounts of the work in the school. The newly purchased bus, engineered by Mrs. P. Beatrice Greene wife of the bishop and Supervisor of the Missionary Department of Georgia. The fine women Of the District made excellent showings in the field of Missions. The Lay Movement in the confines of the conference was well represented. Mrs. Dolly J. Alexander of Atlanta and head of the Lay Movement of the State, presided over the laymen department and brought greetings from the other conferences of the State. E. E. Moore of Waycross, Donald Thomas of Savannah and others made contributions of note to the gathering. Dr. Thornton, the worthy host, had just purchased a Mew church edifice and in a very fine way, made he delegates and friends comfortable. He is an up and coming young man and in his own right has made a permanent contribution to Georgi MaeothaH AA T. HER to Georgia Methodism, here at the very grass roots of Methodism. MERRY CHRISTMAS